Would you say that 9/11 was "spectacular" ?
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What would you say if in 5 years with Waymo, you want to go to Burger King but before taking you there, it suggests ‘hey, why don’t you go to this McDonald’s instead?’ At first you’d get a discount on your ride if you accept the suggestion, and then once everyone gets used to it, no more discounts and everyone ends up paying more than human taxis cost today.
Beside this, the tool looks great, congrats for the job, well done!
Your government will soon find a reason to sue Airbus (corruption, unfair competition, etc.) in order to extract its secrets and supply them to Boeing, and voila, Airbus' technological lead will be wiped out.
See Alstom's story for a manual of the perfect economic imperialist : https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...
More recently, Kyrie Irving had a lot of problems "just" because he shared a controversial documentary available on Amazon.
That's not what I would call "freedom of expression".
For me, current inflation is caused by the fact that people have too much money the do not need and they invest it instead of buying goods.
This leads too more speculation on everything, stocks, cryptos, energy, real estate and even staple foods.
In the last 10 years every of those indexes has gone massively up. This has resulted in companies having share prices increasing faster than their performance would have suggested. If there's more demand for company X stocks then the price will go up even if company's performance is not so great.
And here starts the loop for me, company X employees want a slice of this cake. Their are recompensed for the higher stock price (bonuses, wage increases) and not for their "real life" performance. And now those employees have even much more money they didn't need, so what they do? They invest and speculate => loop.
While the upper middle class (and above) has became richer thanks to this (more salary, stellar investment performance, low interest rates to invest even more etc) the bottom class has lost everything, they have pretty much the same salary than 10 years ago but everything is more expensive.
Nevertheless, almost everywhere in the world, we have also seen wealth tax cuts. So those who had money to invest have now even more and those who need to be helped are helped even less because less taxes means a state less able to help them.
All of this have brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately.
No, all you have to do is spin up your service under test, its database and the service bus/event hub/whatever you use to communicate between services.
Nowadays with Docker it's really easy and fast to spin up test instances during your test run. (4-5 LoC with a good library in C#).
Since 1 or 2 years I'm doing the exactly same thing on my projects and it works great to speed-up development process and if a bug pops in production it's really easy to add it as a future test case.
You're only attached to the input request (endpoint, query params, request body) and the response body. But that's ok because it's already a part of the contract between the API and its consumers. That's it.
But here's is the point that's completely missing from the article. Many choices in organisations are leaded by two wrong drivers :
- Career risk awareness : like we said in the good old days, nobody was fired for buying Sun Microsystems. Same thing applies for Azure and AWS. You're not paying the bill so why looking for a cheaper alternative that might cost you personally a lot. - CV driven decision : on your CV it's better and more valuable to have 3 years of Azure/AWS than having 3 years on OVH/Hetzner/etc.
Finally, as a leader in an organisation, it's always easier to follow the trend rather than trying to convince your coworkers to follow you to a more "exotic" solution.
Conclusion : have a look on your meme.
Will this song also be available in Spotify? I discovered your discography today with this post. It's really awesome, keep going.
FYI They both sell your data to brokers.
But yes, generally history is much cleaner when squashing commits.
That's the danger with software companies being the wealthiest ones in the world, people think that others companies should apply the same recipes and earn more money.
You can move fast with web and mobile apps, if you break something a page didn't load and someone is unable to see number of likes on his last Instagram pic of his dinner, fine, let's redeploy and it should work again.
Even Azure or AWS provide something like 99.99% SLA on their services, imagine if Boeing/Airbus/BMW/Mercedes/etc. had the same level on their products, we would have dozens of airplane crashes per day... (Okay maybe not now during the lockdown).
This culture can't and shouldn't be applied in other domains.